The Oregonian previews the 15th annual Great Salt Lick Auction, featuring tongue-sculpted artwork made by livestock and benefiting the OHSU Parkinson Center.

Pamplin Media interviews Nathan Selden, M.D., Ph.D., following revelations in Australia about a live roundworm that neurosurgeons found in the brain of a patient who reportedly ingested it a year before as larvae from consuming native vegetation in python habitat. He says, “Oregon is a really great, healthy place to live, and we have a really low burden of risk for foodborne disease. But there’s nowhere on earth where that risk is zero. So we should just be sensible and careful, but not overly stressed or worried.”

An OHSU study that used real blood to evaluate the absorbency of period products found menstrual discs typically carry the most blood and menstrual underwear usually absorbed the least. Bethany Samuelson Bannow, M.D., M.C.R., says: “as a hematologist who studies bleeding disorders, it’s absolutely shocking to me that we have an organ that’s literally designed to bleed and stop bleeding every month, and we really haven’t delved into exactly how that works.”

Jordan Anderson, D.O., says diagnosing depression in people with long COVID-19 requires a nuanced approach because the symptoms commonly associated with depression are also related to long COVID-19.

An OHSU-authored long COVID-19 care guide for primary care providers is mentioned in a discussion about vaccination and whether people experiencing chronic COVID-19 symptoms should receive them.

Esther Choo, M.D, notes white patients on organ transplant wait lists are more likely to receive donor organs than Black and Hispanic patients in a story about criticisms of the United States’ current organ transplantation systems, adding: “I think there’s something about this whole process, this moment in history. This is one of those rare moments where you feel like we could really do something here.”

After Kourtney Kardashian revealed that her pregnancy required urgent fetal surgery, Raphael Sun, M.D., explains to HuffPost different types of fetal surgery procedures. He says, “It’s special, and I think it’s really complex, and it takes an entire team to be able to execute this.”

The FDA approves a new COVID vaccine that works despite the highly mutated variant. Fikadu Tafesse, Ph.D., says, “We were really getting ready for no response at all, but the data is very, very promising.”

The FDA approves a new COVID vaccine that works despite the highly mutated variant. Fikadu Tafesse, Ph.D., says, “We were really getting ready for no response at all, but the data is very, very promising.”

Esther Choo, M.D, notes white patients on organ transplant wait lists are more likely to receive donor organs than Black and Hispanic patients in a story about criticisms of the United States’ current organ transplantation systems, adding: “I think there’s something about this whole process, this moment in history. This is one of those rare moments where you feel like we could really do something here.”